Android is now rapidly overtaking iOS as the most dominant smartphone platform, but back in 2009, when Android was just a sprogly neonate, Erich Specht — owner of a company called Android Data up until 2002 — lobbed the first trademark infringement lawsuit at Google, saying the OS infringed on his trademark for “Android” and that he wanted ninety four million dollars from Google, Android Inc. and the Open Handset Alliance to make things right.

Totally nutso. Trademarks are not meant to give ownership to specific words to individuals forever: they are meant to prevent a competitor trying to devalue a brand or confuse customers by naming a product in such a way that is similar or identical to a successful competitor’s product. Specht’s suit — protecting the trademark of a company long dead that wasn’t even in the mobile space to begin with — was a cash grab, plain and simple.

Looks like the courts agreed. Last week, a judge granted Google’s Motion for Summary Judgment and threw out the case… and then went one step further by canceling Specht’s original trademark, claiming it could actually confuse people into thinking Specht’s Android mark was related to Google’s, and also because Specht had already used it as a “sword” against the search giant… and might frivolously do so again.

Google’s official comment is amusingly terse: “We are pleased to see this case dismissed, as it was baseless from the start.”